Earlier this week, over 50 Texas House Democrats denied the Texas House a quorum by leaving the State in protest over GOP-backed voting legislation. The move was similar to the May walkout and reminiscent of the 2003 decampment over redistricting.
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What parliamentary procedures, legal recourse, and/or political mechanisms are available to compel the Texas Democrats to return or punish them for leaving?
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Beyond these aforementioned examples, is there a precedent for this type of action? If so, by which party and for what stated reason?
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I'm thinking in particular about a situation happening right now where a Senate committee moved a motion forward to the full Senate even though the committee didn't have the required members present to vote on that motion. (Two minority members were required to be present by Senate rules, but none were present.)
I am looking for factual answers here. Are there either explicit laws, or court rulings, or some other writings, that are informative to the question of whether an action by members of the senate (passed law, nomination, or whatever other actions the senate as a whole can be said to take) requires that its own rules have been followed in order for that action to count as an action taken by the senate as a whole?
If the motion passed by the committee mentioned above is voted on in Senate and passes, for example, can that later be challenged on legal grounds given that the original passing of the motion from committee took place against the senate's own rules for how committees are to conduct business?
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I mean time after time any and all ships are being boarded and the bridge and engineering is being overtaken. Why is it still not standard operating procedure to have security personnel safeguard the most important parts of the ships when red alert is raised? It seems so logical to do so.
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> The Emperor in the book is both petty and paranoid and has very limited authority, constantly caught between the competing machinations of Bene Gesserit, the Navigator Guild and the Choam Directorate. In fact his motivation for attacking Dune in the books, aside from paranoia, is that he is all but ordered to by the Guild. In the film, not only is he firmly in charge, but is a shrewd planner. He is the one who devlops the scheme to crush House Atreides in a way that also exausts House Harkonnen to the point of pliability. He also knows from the beginning that Keynes has turned and plans to have her killed indicating he knows alot more about the Fremen than believed.
Then again, maybe here it's not that they made him smarter, but that these factions have been left unexposed to the viewer?
What do y'all think? What makes for a better story, smart bastard emperor, or smarmy puppet emperor?
I'm trying to gather some other universities' official policies, to get an idea what everyone else is doing, but I'm having trouble finding them just listed online. Anybody else have theirs up and available? Or if not officially up - what are your experiences with it? I'm thinking big 100+ person meetings, where lots of people want to speak. Do you keep the chat on? Do you stick strictly to Robert's Rules?
I’m wondering because I honestly can’t see this stumbling mess going on for much longer, although past evidence says somehow the government will weather it.
Edit; thanks for the responses so far folks, much appreciated
